Owen Sound Sun Times

There are now eight Grey-Bruce long-term care and retirement homes with COVID-19 outbreaks after another outbreak was declared over on the weekend. The Grey Bruce Health Unit has declared the outbreak at Pinecrest Manor in Lucknow over after outbreaks at both Lee Manor in Owen Sound and Grey Gables in Markdale ended this weekend as […]

While the COVID-19 pandemic has managed to put a halt on any festivities around celebrating the Sauble Ski Club’s 40th anniversary, it certainly hasn’t dulled the enthusiasm of those wanting to hit the trails. With many activities again shut down due to the latest surge in cases of the Omicron variant of the virus, cross-country […]

Two snowmobilers received three-day licence suspensions and were warned about riding on closed trails after being stopped in Owen Sound on Saturday. The Owen Sound Police Service were conducting a RIDE check at the snowmobile trail in the area of the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre when two snowmobilers were stopped and a roadside demand […]

COVID-19 outbreaks at a pair of Grey County-run long-term care homes were declared over on Saturday. The outbreaks at Lee Manor in Owen Sound and Grey Gables in Markdale are now both over, but an outbreak at Rockwood Terrace in Durham is continuing, along with outbreaks at eight other long-term care and retirement homes in […]

The Port Elgin Tankard is set to go ahead as scheduled if all goes to plan in Ontario. Thursday’s announcement by the provincial government introducing a planned phased-in lifting of COVID-19 restrictions means spectators will be able to watch the Port Elgin Chrysler ’22 Ontario Tankard at 50 per cent capacity at The Plex in […]

Fourteen Grey-Bruce residents are in hospital due to COVID among 247 active, known cases. Of the 14 in hospital, two are receiving treatment outside of Grey-Bruce. That’s one fewer case in a hospital out of the area than was reported Thursday. There remain 11 long-term care or retirement homes with outbreaks and Wiarton hospital’s outbreak […]

The new hospital in Markdale will have seven in-patient beds, not four as originally approved, Grey Bruce Health Services announced. The health ministry supported the expansion request, utilizing room within the building’s “flex space,” included in the design should more beds be approved, president and CEO Gary Sims said in a news release. “As a […]

The Hepworth Shallow Lake Royal Canadian Legion Branch 586 in Hepworth was destroyed by an early morning fire Friday. Branch president Karie Cole said just before 10 a.m. that the building had been completely destroyed by the blaze. She said she was at the scene at 5 a.m. and the building was fully engulfed. “It […]

Firefighters were battling a large, stubborn blaze early this morning at the Hepworth Shallow Lake Legion building in Hepworth, which is also home to the Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame. Damage appeared extensive and the building may be unsalvageable. Information about the cause and degree of damage was not immediately available as firefighters […]

The Owen Sound Attack bounced back in Barrie Thursday night after a sub-par weekend in the Soo. Backup goaltender Corbin Votary backstopped the Bears to a 3-2 win inside the Sadlon Arena. The Napanee native made 31 saves on 33 shots and was reminiscent of Dominik Hasek at times in the third period, frustrating the […]

New COVID-19 outbreaks have been declared at the Seasons Retirement Community in Owen Sound as well as in the in-patient and complex continuing care unit at the Wiarton Hospital. A Grey Bruce Health Services spokesperson said Thursday afternoon that they were early in the investigation of the outbreak at the Wiarton hospital. As of Thursday […]

The Ontario government announced on Thursday that it would ease restrictions at restaurants, cinemas, non-spectator areas of sports and rec facilities including gyms, and other venues beginning Jan. 31. The move was announced as the government has said in recent days that key public health indicators are starting to show signs of improvement. Marcia Cunningham, […]

The evidence is in and the trial to resolve a 30-year dispute over ownership of a popular sandy strip of Sauble Beach is moving on to final arguments. Superior Court Justice Susan Vella heard from 18 witnesses in a trial which started Nov. 23, broke for the Christmas period, and resumed in the new year. […]

With the sale of the Sauble Area Medical Clinic building to South Bruce Peninsula, the not-for-profit group that owned it is donating $1 million of the proceeds to buy equipment for the hospitals in Wiarton, Owen Sound and Southampton. The Sauble Family Health Team still works in the building, at 672 Main St. E. in […]

Georgian Bluffs has put its proceeds from the sale of the Wiarton-Keppel International Airport into reserves. On Wednesday during its committee of the whole meeting, council approved a staff recommendation to use a portion of the funds from the sale to pay off the outstanding balance of $205,000 on a loan the municipality took out […]

The driver of an SUV has been charged with failing to stop for a red light after a collision resulted in another vehicle striking a church in Owen Sound on Wednesday. Both drivers sustained minor injuries in the collision, which occurred at the corner of 10th Street West and 3rd Avenue West, and left one […]

South Bruce Peninsula council will be exploring a developer’s proposal to build its multi-purpose community hub in the planned Wiarton Meadows development at Wiarton’s south end instead of on a town-owned site on Jenny Street. Planning consultant John Tennant, who presented the proposal to council Tuesday, said Wiarton Meadows Inc. would contribute up to 15 […]

The Omicron-fuelled wave is expected to peak later this month in Ontario according to the latest COVID-related data and modelling trends in the province. Health Minister Christine Elliott and Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore held a news conference Wednesday morning where they discussed the pandemic’s next horizon. “We are starting to […]

An Owen Sound man played the $50 Instant Supreme 7 lottery and won $700,000, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation announced Wednesday. Daniel Armstrong, 56,”likes to play Instant tickets and purchases online games when the jackpots are high,” an OLG news release quoted him saying. “I played my ticket at home and then checked it […]

A fundraiser is being held next month to support a program in Grey-Bruce that provides care and comfort to people while in the area’s hospitals. The We Care – We Walk fundraiser is being organized in February by the Grey Bruce Spiritual Care Council to support the work of their spiritual care providers. Spritual care […]

A Mercedes SUV was recovered and returned to its owner after it was stolen in the village of Chatsworth on Monday. A 38-year-old man of no fixed address was arrested and charged in relation to the incident. At about 11:30 a.m., the Mercedes R 35 SUV was stolen from a driveway and the theft was […]

A Wiarton man has been charged with impaired driving after being involved in a collision in Owen Sound on Tuesday. Two vehicles sustained significant damage but neither driver was injured in the collision that occurred at about 11:15 a.m. near the intersection of 8th Street East and 9th Avenue East, Owen Sound police said in […]

Bruce Power announced several key contracts for its Major Component Replacement (MCR) Project Wednesday, which it says is advancing the company’s strategy to contribute to economic revitalization in Ontario. “Last July, Bruce Power announced a $3 billion ‘Made in Ontario’ plan to invest in Ontario jobs and economic prosperity through our Life-Extension Program, medical isotope […]

The owner of the long-vacant former Black Clawson Kennedy site has submitted plans to city hall to develop the eight-acre block near Owen Sound’s harbour. Toronto-based Hansa Financial & Property Management has submitted a site plan application that proposes building six four-storey residential buildings, with a combined 224 units, along with a one-storey amenity building […]

A father and son, and five other family members, are suing the West Grey Police Services Board and two of its officers after a police encounter two summers ago in Chesley left one of the men with what they say were life-threatening injuries. David and Casey Hillier were each charged on June 6, 2020 with […]

A Hanover-based provincial association of wood manufacturers hopes to persuade the federal government to devise a national, emergency foreign worker program to help solve its labour shortage problems. The industry needs thousands of workers in Ontario alone, Wood Manufacturing Cluster of Ontario CEO Mike Baker said. The organization used to be called Bluewater Wood Alliance. […]

Strong northerly winds and “significant weather” are what prompted the captain of the M/V Herbert C. Jackson lake freighter to anchor off Sauble Beach Saturday. Chrissy Kadleck, spokesperson for The Interlake Steamship Company, which owns the self-discharging bulk carrier, said the 690-foot vessel was headed north on Lake Huron at the time and was not […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit says a COVID-19 outbreak at the Owen Sound hospital is over. Public health declared the outbreak on Unit 6-2, the medicine unit, Jan. 3 after three asymptomatic patients tested positive for the virus. The outbreak was declared over Monday. Gary Sims, president and CEO of Grey Bruce Health Services, said […]

Police are asking for the public’s help after a black Tesla sedan, valued at $70,000, was destroyed by fire in Tiverton. South Bruce OPP officers and Kincardine firefighters were called to King Street in the southern Bruce County town at about 7:20 a.m. Friday to find a car fully engulfed in flames, according to a […]

The Grey Bruce Health Unit has added more appointments at this week’s COVID-19 vaccination clinics and says walk-ins are now also welcome. Public health is still recommending people book an appointment to get their jab as wait times could increase if walk-in numbers are high. The Hockey Hub vaccination clinic at the Harry Lumley Bayshore […]

On wildcard weekend in the National Football League the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds put up a touchdown against the Owen Sound Attack to sweep the weekend set in style. The ‘Hounds notched a pair of power-play goals and picked up their second shorthanded tally in as many games to top the Bears 6-1 at the […]

The Owen Sound-Port Elgin area has earned a spot on a list of the Top 25 growth cities in Canada. The list, which puts the local area at Number 9, is based on a “U-Haul Growth Index,” which records the net gain of one-way U-Haul moving trucks arriving in a city, versus departing, within a […]

The number of Grey-Bruce residents in hospital with a confirmed case of COVID-19 rose over the weekend from 14 Friday to 17 Sunday. Fourteen of those patients are hospitalized in Grey-Bruce, while three are in hospital outside of the region, according to the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s daily situation report for Sunday. All local cases […]

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ON HOLD The Bluewater Athletic Association winter sports season won’t resume Monday when students return to in-person classes according to the region’s top administrators. Bluewater District School Board Director of Education Lori Wilder said the board has made the decision to hold off on sports to better assess the situation once students […]

Police have charged a 54-year-old Collingwood resident with first-degree murder after a man was found dead inside of a home in the town Friday morning. Officers with the Collingwood-Blue Mountains OPP were called to a residence on Hurontario Street in Collingwood at about 8:20 a.m. They found a deceased adult male inside and an individual […]

As temperatures dipped below -25 C with the wind chill Saturday morning, 76-year-old Joan Barton stripped down to her “skivvies” and plunged into the near-freezing waters of Colpoys Bay. The spirited South Bruce Peninsula woman swam in the frigid deep-blue water for exactly three minutes — one minute for each degree of water temperature — […]

The Owen Sound Attack let the league’s best power play go to work Saturday night and ended up with a 5-2 loss at the hands of the Greyhounds in Sault Ste. Marie. The ‘Hounds entered the game with 39 power-play goals while operating at an over 30 per cent clip on the man advantage. Owen […]

Twelve local people are in a local hospital and two more are hospitalized outside Grey-Bruce due to COVID-19, the health unit reported Friday. Five of them are in a local ICU and two more are in an ICU outside Grey-Bruce, said Dr. Ian Arra, the Grey-Bruce medical officer of health. None of them is fully […]

With temperatures in Owen Sound expected to hit -30 C with the windchill this weekend, the city is working with Safe ‘n Sound to extend the agency’s hours for those seeking shelter from the cold. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, city facilities that have served as warming stations during cold temperatures in the past are not […]

Both Grey and Bruce county councillors received snapshots Thursday of the homelessness situations in their communities. Just over 140 individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Grey County and another 64 in Bruce County participated in a point-in-time homelessness enumeration study, conducted jointly by the two counties and front-line service providers Oct. 18. Of those surveyed, […]

Several residents in a Walkerton apartment building had to be rescued by firefighters after they were trapped by smoke from a fire late Wednesday night. Crews responded at about 11:40 p.m. after receiving a report of a fire in the residential seniors’ apartment building at 401 Cayley St., known as the Thompson-Bolden Seniors Apartments. Firefighters […]

Eleven facilities have active COVID-19 outbreaks in Grey-Bruce, according to the health unit’s latest situation report. On Thursday, the affected locations were Maple Court Villa retirement home in Walkerton, Lee Manor in Owen Sound, Grey Gables in Markdale, and Rockwood Terrace in Durham – as well as Pinecrest Manor in Lucknow, Errinrung in Thornbury, McVean […]

South Bruce OPP are continuing to investigate an incident in Kincardine where someone walked along a freshly poured sidewalk before it set, leading to an estimated $13,000 repair job. Police first received the report of the incident on Nov. 9 at the intersection of Gordon Street, where they found that a section of the freshly […]

Students, staff and parents are being asked to help minimize the spread of COVID-19 through self-screening and self-imposed isolation protocols in the absence of public health interventions when they return to school Monday. “I think it’s going to be a change. I think it’s going to take time for families to adjust to that, but […]

Two Grey County residents have been charged after a pickup truck that had been reported stolen was stopped by police in Chesley on Wednesday. Just before 4:30 a.m., a South Bruce OPP officer was on patrol when the officer used the cruiser’s emergency lights to signal the truck to stop. The vehicle continued driving through […]

The Kemble Mountain trail has been permanently closed to off-road vehicles. On Wednesday, Georgian Bluffs council passed an amendment to its off-road vehicles bylaw to no longer permit the use of ORVs on the Kemble Mountain Trail along the Cole’s Road Sideroad unopened road allowance. The motion passed 5-1 in a recorded vote with only […]

Building heating and staffing issues will keep the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library closed to the public until Monday at 1 p.m., CEO Tim Nicholls Harrison said Thursday. The library announced on Facebook and on its website Thursday that the library was addressing a “facilities issue” which it hoped would be remedied […]

Gavin Bryant’s four-point night and a 27-save shutout courtesy of Nick Chenard sparked the Owen Sound Attack to a 5-0 victory over the Sarnia Sting Wednesday night. The win is the team’s third straight on the road and the first since an extended break for the holiday with two bouts of COVID protocol. Owen Sound […]